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Are then my sentiments found fault with in this business which fell
especially to my share? I rescued affairs of the greatest consequence from
the mischief of the most imminent danger; and I saved not only it, but you
also, from massacre, and conflagration, and devastation. No one denies this;
as to the pretext of dearness there was added that spy of the general
misery, who always lit the firebrand of his guilt in the misfortunes of the
republic.
He says that nothing ought to have been decreed irregularly to any one. I do
not at present make the same reply to you that I make to the
rest,—That many wars, and these wars of the greatest danger and of
the greatest importance, both by land and sea, have been entrusted to Cnaeus
Pompeius out of the regular order. And if any one repents of those measures,
he must also repent of the victory of the Roman people.
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